Cheap and Easy Halloween Decorations for Outside
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66 Best Outdoor Halloween Decorations to Impress the Neighbors
These boo-tiful Halloween ideas will make your home the talk of the town.
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Get ready for Halloween to come back with abandon this year! We predict the kids will be all gussied-up and out in droves to collect candy, Halloween treats, and hopefully only wreak a little havoc. So you'll want to make your house looks super spook-tacular to great the gaggles of friendy ghosts and gobblins ! That's why we've rounded up these boo-tiful outdoor Halloween decorations to help your porch, door, and yard look its best.
Sure, a jack-o'-lantern or two is nice—and certainly classic!—but haven't you already been there and done that? This year, it's time to step it up a notch in terms of both originality and spookiness. Whether you opt for something more traditional (think: a few painted pumpkins, pots of fresh fall flowers, and a fall wreath or two) or aim for something a little more advanced (a DIY array of festive lanterns could be nice, or a pair of scary-looking "floating hats"), we can practically guarantee there's something on our list for you.
Not super confident in your crafting skills? Don't worry, we've made sure to include ideas that are suitable for crafting beginners and pros alike. Even if the holiday's just around the corner, you still have time to whip up a few of our very favorite outdoor Halloween decoration DIYs and get your fall porch into tip-top shape!
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Gnome House Pumpkin
Little hands will love helping create and keeping and eye out for the gnomes that are surely going to move into this sweet little gourd cottage. To display, try setting on a table on a soft bed of moss.
To make: Cut a hole in the bottom of a medium blue Hubbard squash; scoop out the pulp and seeds. Cut out the door and circular door window. Etch lines in the door with a linoleum carving tool and insert toothpicks (shortened if necessary) to create window muttons. Lightly draw flower design on either side of door with a pencil and use linoleum carving tool to etch out. Insert the door into the opening and hold in place with toothpicks. Hot glue mini glass balls into acorn caps to create lights; attach to pumpkin with hot glue. Cut half to 2/3 off of a wood round; attach to pumpkin, above the door, to create an awning.
Cut a hole in the bottom of a small brown or green acorn squash; scoop out the pulp and seeds. Cut a circular window and insert toothpicks (shortened if necessary) to create window muntins. Lightly draw flower design around window with a pencil and use linoleum carving tool to etch out. Stack pumpkins and add wood round steps and gingko leaves.
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Leaf Motif Pumpkins
Great trick-treaters and well-wishers with a wheelbarrow stuffed full of painted on and decoupaged leaf motif pumpkins. Bulk up the display with no extra work by including loads of varying size and color pumpkins
To make:
Decoupage Leaves: Cut out leaves and flowers from new or vintage wallpaper or wrapping paper. Decoupage to pumpkins using Mod Podge.
Outlined Painted Leaves: Use a leaf shaped stencil to paint fall colored leaves on green, blue or white pumpkins. Once dry use a white paint pen to outline the leaves, add veining, and decorative details.
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Natural Leaf Pumpkins
Nestled in the crook of a covered front porch, these simple and elegant gourds are decorated with leaves and a few easy-to-find craft supplies.
To make:
Fall Lettering: Attach leaves, in a wreath shape, to a pumpkin with flat head push pins. Use a pencil to lightly draw the word "fall" on a small wood round. Attach thin leather cording or twine over the drawing with hot glue. Hot glue wood round to the pumpkin over the center of the leaves.
Leaf Covered: For one season pumpkins attach leaves from the yard with spray adhesive in a loose pattern. If you want to keep the pumpkin from year to year attach preserved leaves to a fake pumpkin.
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Painted Faux Bois Pumpkin
Adding paint to an etched faux bois (the artistic imitation of wood) pumpkin helps the colors pop adding fun flair to this sophisticated pumpkin. Display on a covered porch next to the door or on a table.
To make: Lightly sketch a faux bois pattern on a pumpkin with a pencil. Use a linoleum carving tool to etch out the pattern. Once complete paint unetched part of the pumpkin with acrylic paint. If you get any paint in the etched grain you can remove it up with the carving tool once dry.
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Etched Vine Topiary Pumpkin
The perfect sophisticated decor for greeting guests to your front door. Place directly on the porch or layer on a vintage ladderback chair with different color plaid blankets.
To make: Purchase one large, one medium, and one small pumpkin (any color combo works) that stack nicely. Remove the stems from the large and medium pumpkin. Lightly sketch a vine pattern on a pumpkin with a pencil. Use a linoleum carving tool to etch out the pattern. Once complete attach red berries or beads with hot glue.
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Silvered Leaves Pumpkin
These DIY shimmering leaves look great on blue-hued or green pumpkins such as Jarrahdale, Blue Doll, Blue Moon, and Fairytale.
To make: Attach silver leaf with sizing to one side of fake or real leaves (alternatively, you can spray paint leaves silver). Once dry, spray adhesive spray on the back of the leaves and attach to pumpkins.
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Bittersweet Vine-Wrapped Pumpkins
This simple craft, which is perfect for decorating your fall table or front porch, only takes three supplies and just a few minutes to make. If you can't find bittersweet vine, try using grapevine and attaching berries with hot glue.
To make: Wrap white pumpkins with bittersweet vine, holding it in place with t-pins and hot glue.
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Spiderweb Wreath
Creepy crawly spiders make a home on this white burlap covered wreath.
Make the wreath: Tie six pieces of white string across a 14-inch foam wreath form, making sure to loop each one at the midway point of the first piece attached to create a central point. (This is the base of the web and should have 12 "spokes.") Tie a long piece of
string to the center point; weave and loop from the center out to create the web. If you run out of string, tie another piece to the end and continue weaving. When you reach the wreath form, tie off at
your ending point. Move the twine up and down to create uneven gaps in the web. Wrap the wreath form with white burlap ribbon and attach faux spiders with hot-glue. Loop a piece of white burlap
ribbon around the form to hang.
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Butter Churn Pumpkin
Based on a ceramic butter churn, this pumpkin with add lots of country charm to your porch.
Make the pumpkin: Remove the stem from a large white pumpkin.
Draw a vintage-looking number and an oval around it on the front of the pumpkin with a pencil. Attach blue twine over drawing with hot-glue. Create two stripes on the top of the pumpkin with blue
washi tape. Glue a 1" dowel where the stem was.
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Vintage Halloween Mask Wreath
It will only take a few minutes to craft this friendly Halloween focused wreath.
Source colorful vintage paper masks from websites like Etsy and eBay—you will need 10 to 15 total. Attach to an 18-inch craft
ring with a dab of hot-glue, layering and overlapping them as you go.
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Pumpkin Basket
Fill these cutie pumpkin baskets with mini pumpkins or candy for kiddos.
Cut off the top quarter of a flat pumpkin (this is a Musquee de Provence variety); scoop out pulp and seeds. Attach lengths of grapevine just below the opening with T-pins. Attach a grapevine handle just inside the opening with T-pins. Nestle mini pumpkins in the basket.
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Balloon Spider
Make a cluster of these creepy-crawlies in different sizes to hang outside.
Make the body: Blow up one large black balloon for the body and one smaller black balloon for the head. Tie the two balloon knots together to form the spider.
Make the legs: Wrap eight lengths of unfurled wire hanger or 12-gauge craft wire with black faux fur, holding in place with hot-glue. Twist ends of four lengths together, creating bundles of legs. Repeat with remaining four lengths.
Assemble the spider: Wrap a black pipe cleaner around twisted ends of leg bundles. Wrap pipe cleaner around "neck" of spider where balloons are tied together. Wrap fishing wire around leg to hang.
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Candy Wreath
Hang on the door for decoration or let trick-or-treaters help themselves to a sweet treat.
Gather an assortmentof old-fashioned candies in autumnal shades such as yellow, orange, and magenta. Wrap a 14-inch foam wreath form in white ribbon. Attach candy with hot-glue, layering and overlapping as you go. Finish with a yellow burlap bow.
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Bookish Outdoor Halloween Decorations
Haunting book jackets make for a spine-chilling entrance. You can easily make these yourself using construction paper, some letter stencils, and a bit of gold craft paint.
Make the Books: Cut long, thin rectangular pieces of differing colored kraft paper or construction paper (we used red, gray, and black). Draw titles of books on the paper. Outline letters with gold paint pens. Fill in outline with paint pen or gold acrylic paint. Attach to door with double- sided tape.
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Pumpkin Checkers
Invite people to sit and stay for a friendly game of checkers with pumpkin game pieces of course!
Make Pumpkin Checkers: Paint 32 squares on a large (roughly 30-inch) wood board with burnt orange craft paint. Use mini white and orange pumpkins as game pieces.
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Broom Halloween Door Decorations
Pay homage to everyone's favorite Halloween character with this fun idea. All you need are a few vintage brooms and a witchy attitude to make it happen!
Assemble the Brooms: Drill a small hole in the handle of two large outdoor brooms. Hammer five small nails in front door. Hang two brooms, right sides up, through holes. Hang a third large broom and two small "witches' brooms" by threading the bristles over the remaining three nails.
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Simple & Sophisticated Halloween Decorations
There's no need to go over the top with your outdoor Halloween decorations just because the neighbors did. Here, stately, elegant array of pumpkins spruces up the outside of this home beautifully. Meanwhile, a simple green garland decorates the front door.
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Morgue Door Decorations
Front doors? More like "morgue drawers." This creepy idea will have all the kids running for the hills—and then running back for some candy.
Craft the Doors: Attach three precut 20- by 30-inch pieces of foam core together with spray adhesive. Attach a piece of black paper, cut to size, to the top piece of foam core using spray adhesive. Insert the rectangular piece of two 6-inch stainless steel T-hinges between the first and second pieces of foam core on one of the short sides; "screw" in place. Place a 6 1/2-inch handle on the opposite side; "screw" in place. Cover exposed edges of the foam core with silver duct tape, folding any excess to the back. Make two more doors. Adhere to house door with heavy-duty self-adhesive Velcro. Cut five coffin shapes from black and gray kraft paper. Paint letters on gray coffins with red acrylic paint to spell "morgue" and attach to black coffins with double-sided tape. Hang a plastic chain above the door and attach coffin cutouts with hot-glue.
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Festive Back Porch Halloween Decor
This Halloween set-up is so lovely, we'd leave it up all season! (Actually, that's the whole idea behind the back porch decor you see here.)
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Candy Corn Door Decorations
Done properly, a simple candy corn front door design will be the talk of your entire block. You can have the kids pitch in to craft this one!
Craft the Door: Create a candy corn-inspired "quilt." Paint wide stripes, using acrylic paint (we used orange, mustard, cranberry, and gray), on thick artist's paper. Once dry, cut into equal-size triangles. Cut a 2-inch paper trim in a corresponding color. Attach to door using double- sided tape.
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Black Ribbon Halloween Wreath
We're spooked in the best way by this black wreath. A witch silhouette in the middle keeps it perfectly on-theme.
Make the Wreath: Cut 150 6-inch-long strips of 2-inch-wide black grosgrain ribbon. Fold the strips in half and attach them to a 16-inch foam wreath form with straight pins, layering them on top of each other to create a ruffle effect. Cut out a silhouette of a witch from black kraft paper. Attach it to the center of a 16-inch round clear piece of acrylic with double-sided tape. Hot-glue the edges of the acrylic round to the back of the wreath form. Finish with a bow with long tails.
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Seed Packet Halloween Door Decorations
Seed packets featuring fall produce add harvest charm to any front door. We love this idea for any country-dwelling family.
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Scary Crow Wreath
It doesn't get too much creepier than an all-black wreath. Give your guests a solemn welcome to any Halloween party with this fun DIY.
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Retro Rustic Porch Decorations
Just because it's Halloween doesn't mean you have to treat your yard like it's the set of a horror movie! Stay original and keep things beautiful with Southwestern-inspired decorating ideas, which will keep your home looking pretty well into the fall season. Try filling a distressed crate with pumpkins (retro-inspired coolers work too!). You can also add a bouquet of fresh flowers to a plaid vintage Thermos, and paint pumpkins with Southwestern-inspired designs.
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Classic Country Halloween
Create a classic country Halloween vignette on your front porch by arranging hay bales, mums, pumpkins, and dried corn stalks around your steps. Fake spiderwebs add a not-too-scary touch.
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DIY Black Cat Wood Cutout
This black cat isn't just impressive because it's handmade (though that's a big part of the appeal). With distressed paint and a few purr-fectly placed, hair-raising details, it's also just a downright beautiful addition to your front porch.
Get the tutorial at The House of Wood.
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Jack-o'-Lanterns in a Jiffy
Turn orange tissue-paper balls into proper Halloween pumpkins that can line your front porch. Simply cut facial features and stems from construction paper and apply to the balls with glue dots.
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Batty Front Door
It doesn't get easier than this: Simply add felt bats to a natural twig wreath to give trick-or-treaters a friendly fright.
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Recycled Jar Jack-o'-Lanterns
Got some old spaghetti sauce jars lying around? Then you're halfway to creating this adorable vignette.
Get the tutorial at Not So Idle Hands.
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Pumpkin With Drilled Shapes
With drilled (rather than carved) pumpkins, your life is bound to be a hole lot easier. To make these fun designs, simply cut a hole in the bottom of a large pumpkin, then scoop out the pulp and seeds as you normally would. Next, mark your desired pattern with an erasable wax pencil. Using a medium drill bit, punch out a dotted outline of your image. Leave approximately the same amount of space between each hole, and you're good to go!
Get the template.
Charlyne Mattox Food and Crafts Director Charlyne Mattox is Food and Crafts Director for Country Living.
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